Lightning Rod Special's first rehearsal for Wildwas on Thursday at The Philadelphia Zoo. The whole ensemble and design team took a guided tour and then broke off into smaller groups to do individual observations, writing assignments, and a short creation project for video. Our second rehearsal (and first rehearsal in the studio) will be tomorrow night.

And with that, our wild journey begins, although I should stop saying wild because we are in search of a better name. Especially after the recent Oscar nominated film adaptation. So if you have any good ideas, send them my way.

What else is in the works?

I am working with Marcia Ferguson on the beginnings of a new project about gender, age, Ursula K. Le Guin, and aliens.

I'm also about to launch into some creating with my collaborator Morgan Andrews of The Medium Theatre Company. That piece is about vision. Morgan has been blogging about his experiences with vision, blindness, and everything in between over here. We will use a lot of his blog entries as points of departure for what we are calling the "Cones" section of what will become a full length piece called "Rods and Cones."